So it looks like we're going to have to catch this guy, if only to improve our own quality of life. In fact, I've already done my part. In the hours following the blast, I visited the scene of the crime. While the authorities were doing their best to collect leads, I figured that it takes a cyclist to catch a cyclist. And surely enough, near the site of the explosion, I found this:

Unlike the letters that have been sent to Congress, this appears to be the genuine article. This is also perhaps the most vivid insight into the mind of a psychopath I've seen since Geraldo interviewed Charles Manson. It's simultaneously crazier than that milkshake movie, scarier than Mario Cipollini's chamois, and dumber than U23D. While we can still only speculate as to the bomber's identity, we at least now know a little more about his motivation. I'm confident in the coming hours that forensic examination and handwriting analysis will yield even more vital information.

In the meantime, if you know any hooded sweatshirt-wearing cyclists with annoying roommates, be sure to turn them in. I realize this describes about half of Brooklyn, but in times like this prudence is a luxury we cannot afford.

The backlash is awful, I'm getting taunts of "get off the road, two-wheeler basturd", " Canadian insurgent" and my coffee shop guy said, "we don't sell to helmetheads anymore". My kids are taunted at school by bullies as the sons of that "skinny, non-diabetic guy".

There are rumors of Blackwater commandos rounding up messengers and sending them to 'Gitmo, with surprisingly little resistance and questions like, "what kinda weed they got in gitmo?"

Homeland security has released info that the bike in question used ALUMINUM TUBING, that's right, the same aluminum tubes found in Iraq and rumored to exist in Iran, once thought to be part of the nuclear weapons program, then the biowarfare program, except they were just tubes ("oops, my bad"-GWB).

Spy satellite photos of Iran reveals people riding bikes from cave to cave in the north. We knew from CNN and FOX footage that Al-queda mastered the monkeybars, we had no idea they had progressed to fixies so quickly.

Sleazy French bike dealers have been sending covert Pista shipments to Iran for over a year, rumor has it they are sourcing the Pistas from Craiglist, hence the inflated prices.

Not all cyclist are terrorists, we are all getting painted with the same big, ugly brush of hatred.

Dear BSNYC: I am not from NYC and therefore I am curious about a few items of news: 1) The news reported that the bike was a "new ten speed". What company still makes these ? Aren't road bikes usually, 18,21,24,27 speeds now? 2) The news reported an 'eye witness' who saw the ten speed; assuming it was vintage, Do bike enthusiasts usually hang around times square at 3:40 a.m ?

Just curious. VGBlog by the way. Anonymous.

P.S. I can see why you you like Williamsburg, its looks like a wonderful place to cycle.

I think this was co-conspiracy staged by the ISCA and the PFISC. The war between bicyclists and in-line skaters has been waging for quite sometime. I never dreamed that the battle of the bike path would come to this!

wait bikesnob if what you said is true, then he must have also been wearing a pair of Assos bib shorts underneath that hoodie, how ells could be possibly be comfortable on a bike? perhaps the bomber is some sort of deranged roadie driven mad by the hipster trend hell bent on giving them a bad rap.

My gosh, the culprit is obvious. There's only one man alive who meets the description. I'm talking, of course, about former Dutch superstar Edwig Van Hooydonk. Get Interpol on the line and jail this menace. Case closed.

I suspect it was a disgruntled bike blogger from Brooklyn, in an attempt to manipulate the Pistadex. Everyone knows that geting harassed by cops is a hipster's dream, so the weekend warriors will want to jump on the bandwagon, but 1st they need to get a fixie...........

This is a 10-speed problem and not a FGFS problem or a 12, 14, 16, or an 18 speed problem. It is also not a balloon tire or unicycle problem. The dumped bicycle is said to have been "nearly new." Since it was USED for said bombing, it is no longer NOS. Which to me means it was stolen from a collector. Or bought from ebay. It also clears Cameron, because his are "old and crappy."

Theodore Kaczynski is said to have had some old 10-speeds at his home, but clearly he's not available at the moment.

How can they hope to catch this guy when the Hamburgler is still at large after all these years?

Wasn't the hamburgler the reason for the Iraq invasion? Wasn't he the "4 of spades" in the deck of the axis of evil?If it weren't for the hamburgler, Mayor McCheese would have no hope in the Republican primaries.

Cameron, thanks for the clarification. I had no idea Nike was so heavily invested in fellatio. All this time, when I heard people always saying "Nike sucks," I thought that they were speaking metaphorically.Anon 2:24

...lets speculate, point by point & then look amongst ourselves...1) END WAR IN IRAQ NOW: not at all an unusual request, given popular opinion...2) END US DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL NOW: again this is a reasonable & intelligent request...3) LET LEVI RIDE !: here there's clearly a leaning to the left, cuz wisconsin is left of nyc on my map...4) 90 MINUTES W/ CHARLIE ROSE: to perhaps discuss the state of the pistadex or vehicle parking in nyc bike lanes ???...5) MAKE JARED FROM "SUBWAY" HUMP THE BURGER KING'S PLASTIC HEAD ON TV: given the state of reality television, this would be as interesting as anything i've seen lately...instead of "you're fired", "you're fucked" might be refreshing...6) MAKE MY ROOMMATE STOP BEING A DICK: now here the perp is getting edgy & a little disconnected cuz, well, roommates are always dicks...7) FREEBIRD !: if this is a reference to a certain southern band, then it does suggest an unhinged personality, however if it implies an appreciation for charlie 'bird' parker & his free-form jazz, perhaps there's more to this person than meets the eye......SIGNED, THE BIKE BOMBER: signing implies a responsible personality & the artistically creative drawing is also definitive......however leaving a new '10 speed' only blocks from the scene, well hell, ain't none a my friends would do that...they'd ride all the way home, even if they were bombed !!!...

I second that Anon 1:05 and your sister Anon 1:17 - what happened to prolly and his boyz and to those wildly smug moving-by-bike people? I don't want to start a new MaCarthyism and be turning in the here-today-gone-tomorrow posters, but both those groups were hit pretty hard with comments... do you suppose they might be behind it?If so, there's only one thing for you NYC riders to do, and this is going to be a stretch, I know, but it has to be done: disguise yourselves. That's right. In order not to be part of "The Crackdown" make sure you:a.) hide your ride inside your apartmentb.) bathec.) buy one outfit that a normal person would weard.) wear said normal outfite.) take mass transitf.) brush your teethg.) resist rolling your pantlegsh.) bathe, againi.) resist the habit of hollerin' 'on your left' while walking from the busstop

The NYT is reporting the guilty bike is a "Ross model." Not much to go on there, but it certainly makes the dumpster detail more interesting. A Ross in 'good condition' might have made the Snob think twice about yesterday's reported Bridgestone purchase.

seriously bike snob, it was american soldiers who were attacked. that is in no way funny. having been a recruiter there were more than a few times when we were in the station at that hour, usually taking young Americans to enlist. the chances of that bomb injuring innocent people instead of merely damaging property are possible.

Thanks for your comment. I only meant to make fun of the bomber, not laugh at our soldiers or at the possibility of people being hurt. I figure someone stupid enough to do something like this is a fair target for ridicule. Certainly if anyone had been hurt it would have been a different story. Fortunately though the only thing he would up attacking was common sense.

In any case, I wanted to reply to your comment because I do respect your reasons for not being amused.

it's always "just" d-baggery until someone gets hurt. the problem is, you just can't predict who will get hurt. it is the nature of these attacks and "intentions" do little good after the fact. luckily, nobody got hurt this time. my point is that based on normal work routine there was a possibility that someone could have been in the station at the time of attack. you can disagree, its only my point of view.

It's unwise to bet on the LeroyDex, which is a wimpy .48 right now (meaning BSNYC got in slightly more than two words for each of yours, Leroy.) But the night is young! If BSNYC is done for the day and Leroy can add 252 words' worth of comments, his output will have surpassed the Snob's.

Hello Anonymous former recruiter with concerns about the Snob's choice of subject today.I believe you have failed to fully grasp that in this particular situation, despite all the post-explosion outcomes that may have been possible prior to the explosion actually happening, and accepting that for any given event, the vast potential pool of possible outcomes "pre-event" must collapse down to the single actual outcome "post-event", a common and widely accepted idea, I want to stress two key facts...

1) Nobody was in the building2) Nobody was injured

Which most here will agree is a good thing. So, given these two facts, it seems a little douche-bag-like to scold the Snob and others here for making fun of something that did happen, because you think that something else that did not happen would not have been funny.

BSNYC already replied over 3 hours ago. that was poor teutonic efficiency. the horse is dead!(metaphorically of course)you can stop beating it now. unless of course your purpose is to hear yourself talk. then you have all weekend. enjoy!

Sounds to me like a fixie freak 14bar inflated a sewup on a craiglist bike, got desperate to take a leak 'n whilst he was peeing the tire blew. In all likelyhood the note found was part of an aborted attack went wrong when the tire blew and the kamikaze nutter had a heart attack. So in fact, craiglist just saved your country.

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